Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Weather Modification Activities Reports, 25581-25582 [2014-10174]
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 86 / Monday, May 5, 2014 / Notices
Dated: April 29, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
II. Method of Collection
No information is submitted to NOAA
Fisheries as a result of this collection.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Greater Atlantic
Region Vessel Identification Collection
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or July 7, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Jason Berthiaume, (978) 281–
9177 or Jason.Berthiaume@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
currently approved information
collection. Regulations at 50 CFR 648.8
and § 697.8 require that owners of
vessels over 25 ft (7.6 m) in registered
length that have Federal permits to fish
in the Greater Atlantic Region display
the vessel’s name and official number.
The name and number must be of a
specific size at specified locations: the
vessel name must be affixed to the port
and starboard sides of the bow and, if
possible, on its stern. The official
number must be displayed on the port
and starboard sides of the deckhouse or
hull, and on an appropriate weather
deck so as to be clearly visible from
enforcement vessels and aircraft. The
display of the identifying characters
aids in fishery law enforcement.
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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0350.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals and
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,513.
Estimated Time per Response: 45
minutes to affix vessel name and
registration number to the vessel.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,385.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $33,850 for paintbrushes, paint,
and stencils.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: April 30, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Weather
Modification Activities Reports
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before July 7, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Karen Williams, (301) 734–
1196 or karen.williams@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
current information collection.
Section 6(b) of Public Law 92–205
requires that persons who engage in
weather modification activities (e.g.,
cloud seeding) provide reports prior to
and after the activity. They are also
required to maintain certain records.
The requirements are detailed in 15 CFR
part 908. NOAA uses the data for
scientific research, historical statistics,
international reports and other
purposes.
II. Method of Collection
Respondents have a choice of either
electronic or paper forms. Methods of
submittal include email of electronic
forms, mail and facsimile transmission
of paper forms.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0025.
Form Number: NOAA Forms 17–4
and 17–4A.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other
non-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
55.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes per report (2 reports each).
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 55.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $275 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 86 / Monday, May 5, 2014 / Notices
Dated: April 29, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
0049, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon,
complete the required fields, and enter
or attach your comments.
• Mail: Submit written comments to
NMFS, Greater Atlantic Regional
Fisheries Office, 55 Great Republic
Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930, ATTN:
GIS Committee.
Instructions: Comments sent by any
other method, to any other address or
individual, or received after the end of
the comment period, may not be
considered by NMFS. All comments
received are a part of the public record
and will generally be posted for public
viewing on www.regulations.gov
without change. All personal identifying
information (e.g., name, address, etc.),
confidential business information, or
otherwise sensitive information
submitted voluntarily by the sender will
be publicly accessible. NMFS will
accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/
A’’ in the required fields if you wish to
remain anonymous). Attachments to
electronic comments will be accepted in
Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF
file formats only.
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Additional information regarding the
publication of the GIS files (i.e.,
shapefiles) and the shapefiles may be
obtained at www.nero.noaa.gov/gis or by
contacting Dean Szumylo, Geographic
Information Specialist, (978) 281–9479,
dean.szumylo@noaa.gov; Douglas Potts,
Sustainable Fisheries Division, (978)
281–9341, douglas.potts@noaa.gov; or
Ellen Keane, Protected Resources
Division, (978) 282–8476, ellen.keane@
noaa.gov. Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the
hearing impaired may call the Federal
Information Relay Service at 1–800–
877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Eastern time, Monday through Friday,
excluding Federal holidays.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries
Office’s Geographic Information
Systems Program; Availability of Files
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice, process for making GIS
files available; opportunity to comment
AGENCY:
This notice announces the
process for making available Geographic
Information System files representing
fisheries and regulated areas that are
managed by the National Marine
Fisheries Service’s Greater Atlantic
Regional Fisheries Office.
DATES: Written comments must be
received (see ADDRESSES) on or before
May 5, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this document, identified NOAA–
NMFS–2014–0049, by any of the
following methods:
• Electronic Submissions: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
www.regulations.gov/
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: GIS is designed to
capture, store, analyze, manage, and
present all types of geographic data.
Over the past decade, the use of these
systems in fisheries management has
grown rapidly and requests for
geospatial data have increased. To
satisfy the need for geospatial data,
NMFS’s Greater Atlantic Regional
Fisheries Office (GARFO) has developed
standardized, high-quality geospatial
data for areas managed by GARFO. This
includes areas authorized under the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, the
Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative
Management Act, the Endangered
Species Act, and the Marine Mammal
Protection Act.
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Creation of GIS Files: In developing
these files, we implemented standards
and policies to ensure that the files are
of high, known quality and are
accompanied by the metadata that are
compliant with the Federal Geographic
Data Committee’s Standards. Metadata
is information that captures the basic
characteristics of the data, its creation,
its usage, and any constraints. Data files
are in an ESRI shapefile format. In
developing the GIS files, we interpreted
any regulatory area boundary intended
to be a straight line on a chart in
Mercator projection to be a rhumb line.
GARFO regulations frequently define an
area’s boundary by coordinates that
define the corners of the feature. In
developing the GIS files, errors may be
introduced into the boundary if only the
endpoints of the boundary are used.
This error may increase as the distance
between coordinates increases. To
ensure that the shapefiles developed
accurately represent the boundaries, we
held the lines to a constant bearing by
adding vertices between coordinates
using the Construct Loxodrome tool or
by densifying the line every 10 nautical
miles in a Mercator projection within
ESRI’s ARcGIS software.
Data Availability: The files are in the
form of ESRI shapefiles packaged as
zipped files for each regulated area. As
the files for each regulated area are
finalized, they will be made publicly
available via our Web site. Files may be
downloaded from www.nero.noaa.gov/
gis or obtained by written request to the
GARFO (see ADDRESSES). For each
regulated area, we provide the shapefile,
the metadata (within the shapefile and
as a PDF), and a reference map image
(pdf and jpg format). The purpose of the
reference map image is to allow users to
quickly locate files for managed areas
that are of interest.
Request for Comments: We will
accept public comments on this new
service, including data creation, as
described above.
Dated: April 30, 2014.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Weather
Modification Activities Reports
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before July 7, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet
at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to Karen Williams, (301) 734-1196 or
karen.williams@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a current information collection.
Section 6(b) of Public Law 92-205 requires that persons who engage
in weather modification activities (e.g., cloud seeding) provide
reports prior to and after the activity. They are also required to
maintain certain records. The requirements are detailed in 15 CFR part
908. NOAA uses the data for scientific research, historical statistics,
international reports and other purposes.
II. Method of Collection
Respondents have a choice of either electronic or paper forms.
Methods of submittal include email of electronic forms, mail and
facsimile transmission of paper forms.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648-0025.
Form Number: NOAA Forms 17-4 and 17-4A.
Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Affected Public: Business or other non-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 55.
Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes per report (2 reports
each).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 55.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $275 in recordkeeping/
reporting costs.
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IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
Dated: April 29, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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